Brackenspore Strategy

[Skye]

Brackenspore Tips & Strategy

Fungal Flesh-EaterThe Brackenspore encounter is an add-heavy fight that requires intelligent target prioritization and heavy movement. Healers have a special task in this encounter; they must manage the health of beneficial mushrooms to activate effects that will greatly assist the raid in defeating Brackenspore. Two DPS players must also take on a special task of controlling the spread of Creeping Moss by using the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrowers to remove Moss as it encroaches upon the raid. While managing all of these extra tasks and killing adds, the raid must make slow but steady progress on killing Brackenspore himself. When there are multiple adds alive, players should focus on killing the Fungal Flesh-Eaters, who deal heavy tank damage, cast a dangerous Decay ability that must always be interrupted, and steadily grow more powerful by accumulating stacks of Flesh Eater. The other adds in the encounter, Mind Fungus and Spore Shooter, cannot be moved and are of lower priority when Fungal Flesh-Eaters are alive, but should be multi-DoTted or cleaved down when convenient. Mind Fungus debuffs nearby players with Mind Fungus, so ranged DPS and healers must move away from these mushrooms once they spawn. Spore Shooters target random players with Spore Shot, which will detonate upon reaching any player, dealing moderate to heavy damage to all players within 8 yards; these projectiles should ideally be intercepted by ranged players before reaching the melee pile.

Living Mushroom Rejuvenating Mushroom

Occasionally a beneficial mushroom will spawn in a randomized location. These mushrooms spawn at 50% health, and their health slowly deteriorates over time; healing the mushroom to full will activate a beneficial effect for the raid. There are two types of beneficial mushrooms: Living Mushroom, which will provide strong AoE healing to players within 20 yards, and Rejuvenating Mushroom, which will grant Rejuvenating Spores to players within approximately 10 yards. Healers must heal up one Living Mushroom before Brackenspore begins using his Infesting Spores ability, so that the Living Mushroom's Living Spores can help heal the raid through the highly damaging Infesting Spores. Once Infesting Spores is over, healers can let the Living Mushroom die. Healers should keep Rejuvenating Mushrooms alive as long as possible, ideally only letting one die when another one has spawned. Tanks should move the boss and Fungal Flesh-Eaters close to the fully-healed beneficial mushrooms so that all players can take advantage of their effects. Additionally, tanks must move the enemies away from Creeping Moss, as all enemies who stand in Creeping Moss will heal rapidly. Players standing in Creeping Moss will also take damage and be slowed. It is important for the players assigned to the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrowers to be proactive in clearing Moss away from the boss, and also to keep the Moss away from Living or Rejuvenating Mushrooms.

Tank Responsibilities

-Keep Brackenspore facing away from the raid for Necrotic Breath
-Taunt Fungal Flesh-Eaters and interrupt Decay
-Move Brackenspore and the Fungal Flesh-Eater out of Creeping Moss if it spawns near you, and do not tank enemies in the water
-Move Brackenspore to Living and Rejuvenating Mushrooms by the time they are healed to full
-Tanks should swap Brackenspore on 4 stacks of Rot, and should not tank both Brackenspore and the Fungal Flesh-Eater at the same time
-Use survivability cooldowns when Brackenspore casts Necrotic Breath, or when tanking a Fungal Flesh-Eater with high stacks of the Flesh Eater buff

Damage-Dealer Responsibilities

-Stand in Rejuvenating Spores
-All DPS should kill Fungal Flesh-Eaters quickly to avoid them reaching high stacks of Flesh Eater
-Ranged DPS should kill Spore Shooters, move to intercept the Spore Shot they fire at the raid, and avoid the Mind Fungus' Mind Fungus
-Melee DPS should kill Mind Fungus since the Mind Fungus debuff does not affect them
-Interrupt the Fungal Flesh-Eater's Decay when possible
-Move into Living Mushroom's area of effect when Brackenspore casts Infesting Spores
-Move into Rejuvenating Mushroom's area of effect once it is activated
-Two DPS players should be assigned to use the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrowers to curb the spread of Creeping Moss

Healer Responsibilities

-Activate Living Spores for Infested Spore healing
-Heal Living Mushrooms efficiently so that they reach full health and activate Living Spores just before Brackenspore begins to cast Infesting Spores
-Keep the Living Mushroom alive long enough to heal through one Infesting Spores ability, then allow it to die
-Heal Rejuvenating Mushrooms to full as quickly as possible, and keep them alive as long as possible with the help of their Rejuvenating Spores
-Tanks will take heavy damage, particularly when Fungal Flesh-Eaters have several stacks of Flesh Eater
-Raid cooldowns will be needed if players do not interrupt Decay, or if there is no Living Mushroom to assist in healing through Infesting Spores
-At least one healer should monitor the health of the players using Flamethrower to curb the spread of Creeping Moss, as they cannot always be grouped with the raid

Flamethrowers' Responsibilities

-Loot the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrower at the start of the encounter, and be sure you can access the Extra Action Button it creates
-Curb the spread of Creeping Moss by using the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrowers to burn away Creeping Moss near the raid
-Use the DPS boost of Burning Infusion to help kill the highest-priority target (usually the Fungal Flesh-Eater or Brackenspore) when Creeping Moss is under control
-Avoid overheating the Blackfuse Company 9000 Flamethrower by terminating the Flamethrower ability before you incur Pulsing Heat
-When possible, stand in the Living Mushroom's area of effect during Infesting Spores; when not possible, use a personal damage-reduction CD or self-healing abilities

[Zahgore]

Flamethrower macro


/click ExtraActionButton1
/stopcasting Flamethrower



1. Click to activate
2. Click again to cancel
3. Slap it on your action bar and use it in small bursts.

[ChezKurg]

http://www.missunderstoodguild.com/cont ... spore/view

Was looking for Brack guides to find out why we seemed to have so much issue with the moss last night. This guide (and several others) mention this hotfix to the flamethrower macro:
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Note: Flamethrowers should be handled in short bursts. Literally turned on for a second and then immediately turned off. This helps to control the usage and prevent overheating. We marked quadrants for simplicity sake to call where we needed more cleanup. We also marked flamethrowers so that they wouldn't go for the same moss and waste fuel.

Have your flamethrowers use this macro:

/click ExtraActionButton1
/stopcasting Flamethrower (ED; This was all strikethrough in the post)

Update 12-22-14: Sorry for the delay in posting this update; however, there was a stealth hotfix that was implemented this week meant to nerf the above usage of the Flamethrowers. Now if your flamethrowers turn off the flamethrower in bursts shorter than three seconds they will automatically gain 10 Heat. For this reason we recommend more of concentrated bursts and very aggressive cleanup to your overall strat.

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Anyway, just thought I would throw this out for discussion by the raid leaders. Perhaps the macro isn't working as intended any longer.

[Skye]

http://www.missunderstoodguild.com/cont ... spore/view

Was looking for Brack guides to find out why we seemed to have so much issue with the moss last night. This guide (and several others) mention this hotfix to the flamethrower macro:
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Note: Flamethrowers should be handled in short bursts. Literally turned on for a second and then immediately turned off. This helps to control the usage and prevent overheating. We marked quadrants for simplicity sake to call where we needed more cleanup. We also marked flamethrowers so that they wouldn't go for the same moss and waste fuel.

Have your flamethrowers use this macro:

/click ExtraActionButton1
/stopcasting Flamethrower (ED; This was all strikethrough in the post)

Update 12-22-14: Sorry for the delay in posting this update; however, there was a stealth hotfix that was implemented this week meant to nerf the above usage of the Flamethrowers. Now if your flamethrowers turn off the flamethrower in bursts shorter than three seconds they will automatically gain 10 Heat. For this reason we recommend more of concentrated bursts and very aggressive cleanup to your overall strat.

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Anyway, just thought I would throw this out for discussion by the raid leaders. Perhaps the macro isn't working as intended any longer.

Good info. I found that I lasted (aka didn't overheat) until Brackenspore was around 25% by waiting until the moss started encroaching on the raid versus trying to keep it clean at the distant fringes. I believe this also helped with my getting heals as there are two challenges: 1) When you do go out to the fringes you can become OOR of the healers; and 2) You need to be healed because in order for the flamethrower to work well, you need to be very close to the moss.